Job Description
Business Unit/Group: WBD Studio Economics
Requisition Number: 21608-1
Intended Start Date: 8/26/2025
Contract Duration: 1-year
Possibility For Extension / Conversion? Yes
Max Hourly Pay Rate: BR/hr
OT Required / Expected? No
WB Games Resource(s)? No
CNN Resource(s)? No
What We Do/Project
As part of the Studio Economics transformation, we are reimagining how business, finance, and technology collaborate to deliver scalable, intelligent, and user-centered solutions. The Senior Business Analyst plays a critical role in this effort , working across product PODs and business domains to help users define, adopt, and evolve the processes and data structures that underpin next-generation tools and analytics.
Operating at the program level, this role partners with business users, product teams, data leads, and platform architects to translate business needs into lead structured analysis, ensure readiness for system transformation, and support successful delivery of outcomes across workstreams. This includes helping define data clean-up requirements, supporting business process redesign, and facilitating program-level insights to support roadmap execution.
Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role
Partner with Business Users and Product Teams to shape WBD s Future State
Engage with business stakeholders to understand current-state workflows, pain points, and unmet needs across financial forecasting, content planning, and monetization processes.
Co-lead future-state design for processes aligned to product goals and platform capabilities, helping surface gaps, dependencies, and change impacts.
Facilitate working sessions and structured interviews that move from what users say is a requirement to what problems users need to solve , capturing business rules, exception handling, and operational constraints.
Lead Cross-Workstream Business Analysis
Perform program-level analysis that informs prioritization, sequencing, and cross-functional dependencies working closely with product owners and program leadership.
Support workstream and Product/Platform leads in breaking down large, ambiguous business needs into discrete, actionable stories and backlog items.
Track open questions, process gaps, and business-side readiness items, coordinating resolution across stakeholder groups.
Drive Data Quality and Clean-Up Alignment
Collaborate with data owners, stewards, and product teams to identify and document data quality issues, duplication, mapping gaps, and legacy structures.
Work with users and engineers to develop data clean-up requirements, acceptance criteria, and business validation checkpoints.
Support semantic alignment efforts by helping users map business terms to canonical data definitions, taxonomy and highlight potential conflicts (e.g, conceptual mismatches, duplication risks, downstream reporting implications)
Support Communication and Change Readiness
Prepare clear documentation process maps, decision logs, functional requirements, readiness trackers that supports shared understanding across business and technical teams.
Co-create materials and co-lead activities that support user onboarding and enablement activities by translating technical impacts into clear business-facing implications, preparing the business teams to absorb and adopt new ways of working.
Monitor user readiness across domains and escalate blockers related to process ownership, data access, or capacity.
Must Have Skills / Requirements
1) Ability to understand user needs and translate into functional requirements.
a. 4-5+ years of experience; Confluence for documenting requirements, Jira for creating tasks and tickets, and Miro for collaboration and whiteboarding.
2) Clarity and clear communication skills with cross functional and globally dispersed teams.
a. 4-5+ years of experience; If candidates have interacted/communicated with executives (presenting work, leading requirements sessions, etc.).
3) Experience in business analysis, preferably supporting cross-functional technology and data transformation initiatives.
a. 8+ years of experience
Nice to Have Skills / Preferred Requirements
1) None
Functional Knowledge / Skills in the following areas:
You ll thrive in this role if you:
o Zoom In and Out
You re comfortable diving into the details of data and process, while also understanding how work connects to program goals and user value.
o Bridge Business and Technology
You speak fluent product, data, technology and ops translating strategic goals into context, structure and insight, and technical trade-offs into business impacts.
o Thrive in Ambiguity
You bring clarity to unstructured problems and guide stakeholders through change, iteration, and continuous improvement.
o Lead Through Influence
You build relationships across functions, ask the right questions, and help drive alignment through facilitation and analysis not control.
o Stay Curious and User-Centered
You continually seek to understand how users work, what outcomes matter, and how to improve both process and system experiences.
What You ll Bring:
o business analysis experience, preferably supporting cross-functional technology and data transformation initiatives.
o Experience working in agile environments, partnering with product owners, analysts, and delivery teams to define and refine features and user stories.
o Excellent communication and stakeholder facilitation skills, with the ability to navigate competing priorities and drive decision-making in matrixed environments.
o Proven ability to map current and future-state business processes, exceptional facilitation and documentation skill, able to create clarity without over-scripting requirements .
o Experience working in agile environments, partnering with product owners, analysts, and delivery teams to define and refine features and user stories.
o Familiarity with data quality analysis, data clean-up planning, and metadata alignment in complex enterprise data ecosystems.
o Strong understanding of financial, operational, or content-related processes in a media or entertainment environment is a plus.
o Excellent communication and stakeholder facilitation skills, with the ability to navigate competing priorities and drive decision-making in matrixed environments.
o Attention to detail or Data QA experience.
Technology Requirements:
1) Proficiency in process modeling tools (e.g., Lucidchart, Miro, Visio), data exploration tools (e.g., Excel, SQL, Tableau), and collaboration platforms (e.g., Confluence, JIRA).
Education / Certifications
1) None
Interview Process / Next Steps
1) 1st round with HM, and/or SME for specific initiative.
2) Possible 2nd round with Senior Manager
Additional Notes
Sourcing in CA Burbank
Hybrid schedule (Tues-Thurs) required.
Job Tags
Hourly pay, Contract work,